Late-Nineteenth-Century Politics: Mountain Republicanism

1. Republicanism--A Distinctive Appalachian Politics in the New South
2. Was It Because of the Civil War?
   1. Yes
      1. Mountain Response to Secession
      2. Wartime Bitterness Toward (Democratic) Secessionists
   2. BUT Not Necessarily--Initial Republican Weakness
      1. Republicans as Party of "Yankee Aggression"
      2. Republicans as Party of Antislavery--Mountaineer Racism
3. Reconstruction--The Formative Era
   1. The Unionist Dilemma
      1. Desire to Restore "Loyal" Rule, BUT
      2. A Minority of Whites Statewide
   2. Response
      1. Disfranchisement of Ex-Confederates
      2. Alliance With Republicans
         1. National Power
         2. Black Votes--An Alliance of Convenience
   3. The Failure of Reconstruction Mountain Republicanism
      1. Factionalism--Competition for Disfranchised Whites
      2. The Race Issue
         1. Suffrage OK, BUT
         2. Real "Black Power"? No
4. The Post-Reconstruction South--Republican Revival
   1. The "Party-Army"--The GOP as "Veterans'" Organization
   2. The Fading of the Race Issue--Northern Withdrawal from Southern Affairs
   3. Opposition to Conservative-Democratic Hegemony--Appeal to Disaffected Democrats
      1. Democratic "Skinflints" vs. Mountain Needs
      2. Virginia--The "Funder-Readjuster" Controversy
      3. North Carolina
         1. Democrats as Anti-Democrats--"Outside Rule" of Mountains
         2. The "Fusion" Movement of the 1890s--Republicans and Populists
5. A Persistent Conservatism
   1. "Pro-Business" Republicanism
   2. Persistent Racism
      1. "Race-Baiting" and the Collapse of Republican State Power
      2. Marginalizing Mountain Republicans--Disfranchisement
6. The Party Record
   1. As Force for Modernization, BUT
   2. As Cover for Exploitation